Drawing and painting faces is notoriously difficult, but there are some simple things that can help you. The trick is to look very hard and draw what you see, rather than what you think you see. For example, lips don’t really have an outline, yet everybody puts that in. Really you can see the darkness of the top lip, and the shadow above the chin, which suggests the bottom lip.

To illustrate this point, ask the children to look at the images below and to decide which is the more realistic mouth? Which is the more realistic eye?

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Coming Soon: Inspire 2020INSPIRE 2020 (10 December 2019 – 22 March 2020) will be the first exhibition of work made by primary school children in the Octagon Gallery atThe Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in collaboration with AccessArt.